Rigging Safety

Over 60 Manitowoc Crane Care dealers throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa met recently for a three day conference in Wilhelmshaven, Germany to discuss the company’s latest customer service initiatives for its Grove mobile crane range.

MCM Events is delighted to name the first members of the Canadian Hoisting & Rigging Safety Council (CHRSC), which will be inaugurated at its Crane & Rigging Conference (CRC) Canada on Sept. 13-14 at the Sutton Place Hotel in Edmonton, Alberta.

Early August sees deployment of a rocket powered robot crane to lower NASA’s mars rover, called Curiosity, to the surface of the red planet.

A large boom truck overturned in the East Flat Rock area of Hendersonville North Carolina yesterday, slicing a house in two. Thankfully no one was injured.

A city inspector who became the poster boy for haphazard oversight after two Manhattan tower cranes collapsed in 2008 was cleared on technicalities of the top charges against him today — but was still convicted of lying on paperwork to shirk inspections.

A Rough Terrain crane went over yesterday at a medical centre site in Boston, Massachusetts. No one was injured in the incident.

The huge piece of construction equipment is about to go up in the heart of Doylestown, on the site where the new Bucks County Courthouse is being built. The crane will be 175 feet tall, Doylestown Borough officials said.

The government of Ontario, Canada has announced a safety blitz this month and next, checking crane safety on construction sites and surface mines across the province.

The number of tower crane accidents in Dubai and the UAE is not significantly different from Europe, says the head of the European crane manufacturers association.

A recently uploaded video is circulating claiming to show a crawler crane dropping a heavy load onto a bus.